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I live and blog in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan BA and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. The Institute of Land Warfare, Army magazine, Infantry Magazine, Military Review, Naval Institute Proceedings, and Joint Force Quarterly have published my occasional articles.

The Undead Archives

My undead archives pre-Blogger were actually restored to life after Geocities sites went dark. Start at the old home page here.
If you find a link to the old site on the current site or old site, you should be able to replace the "g" in "geocities" with an "r" and make a good link.
Another archived site is here.
It replaces the ".com" with ".ws".
I hope to move all the older archives here (and started that project) but it is really tedious.

Monday, January 11, 2016

The Scam Works Because the Assumptions are True

When I worked for the state legislature, a colleague used to bring in his federal tax newsletter to share the latest outrage of IRS power to basically do what they want regardless of what is written down about what they can and can't do. And he was pretty left of center. It amazed him.

So yeah, the scammers found a rich vein to mine.

The scope of federal power is too broad and runs too deep when that fear is so easy to trigger.

Although respect for rule of law isn't an assumption we can make at the state level, I admit.

How has our governance come to this level?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's a fool's game for conservatives to try to tame the growing federal government, which is inherently intrusive and interested in expanding its power.

Better to take every opportunity to prune it back where appropriate.

Which would have a side effect of reducing the pressure the IRS feels to suck in revenue to feed the ever-growing Potomac Beast.

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Note on site statistics: When I strip out the junk hits from Blogger statistics that seem to come and go in waves, I appear to have about 10,000 hits per month.

My old statistics package, Site Meter, seems to miss a lot and even disappears visits after they've appeared.

I just added a new StatCounter. So far it shows far fewer hits than Blogger and is more in line with Site Meter. But I suspect neither of the non-Blogger statistics register hits from social media. So I'm not sure what my audience size is. It is puzzling to me.